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. hereinafter presented.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CHARLES H. BANGS, OF CAMBRIDGEPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOK OR SHOW CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,354, datecl'October 26, 1886.

Application filed June 7, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BANGS, of Cambridgeport, in the county of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Book or Show Cases; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented. in the acccinpanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a front elevation of two sections of a show-case constructed, arranged, and connected in accordance with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim,

Figs. 2 and 3 exhibit such sections in part as separated from each other. Fig. A is an end view of the sec tion provided with the pilaster to be described. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section, and Fig. 6 a vertical section, on an enlarged scale, of the butting portions or parts of the said two sec tions with thri r connecting and adjusting devices.

My improvement enables a book or show case to be constructed in two or more sections separable from one another, so connected as to have the appearance of one continuous case.

In the drawings, A and B are two sections, each being of itself a book or show case, it being provided with shelves and'doors or drawers, as occasion may require. One of such sectionsviz., that marked B-hasprojecting.

from it at its front and from one end of it a pilaster, C, which extends half its width each way beyond the end of the section in order that when the next, or section A, is brought with its end upagainst the end of the section B their joint shall be covered by the pilaster, which will then overlap the said section A. There is inserted and fixed in each section, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, at its end a metallic bracket, D, right angular in form, as repre- Serial No. 204,312. (No model.)

sented in Fig. 6. A screw bolt, E, goes through the two next adjacent brackets and is provided with a nut, F, as represented. By setting up the nut the two sections will be drawn and held together. Furthermore, in the end of one section at its rear part is an adjusting-screw, G, that, arranged as shown in Fig. 6, screws through a piece of metal, H, let into the side of the section, such screw butting at its end against another piece of metal, I, let into the next adjacent end of the next section. By means of this screw the sections may be adjusted into alignment with each other, or a little out of alignment, as circumstances may require.

I usually construct the two meeting sections so that while abutting against each other at the upper and lower parts of their next adjacent ends they shall be a little apart at'the middles of such ends, in order that they may be firmly brought together by the connecting screw and hat.

I am aware that it is not new to construct a book or show case in separate sections batted and secured together, and therefore do not claim such, broadly; but

I claim The combination of the two sections or book or show cases A and B, butting together at their two next adjacentends,with the pilaster C fastened to one and extending from it over the other of them at the front of theirjoint or junction, the connecting brackets D, their screw-bolt E, and nut F, and the adjustingscrew G, arranged with and applied to the sections, substantially as set forth.

CHAS. H. BANGS.

lVitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, R. B. ToRREY. 

